> Hrmpf. dpkg is the low-level packaging tool, it needs to be fed the location > of packages. The bug report was complaining that dpkg missed functionality; > I showed it already possessed that functionality through a concrete example. > Of course, for the sake of convenience, there should be a way to get it > through a higher-level tool like apt or dselect, but that's beside the real > point: dpkg already has what one needs to restore the system in the type of > situation the reporter described.
Perhaps the bug should be reassigned to apt, then. I know I've had a few instances where I needed to reinstall various packages and had to fudge the version numbers in the status file to get dselect or apt to refetch.
